Now is not the time
HOLY Week is traditionally a time for Filipino families and friends to get together, but there will be many other opportunities to do so...
Seeing red
WE SUPPORT Senate Bill (SB) No. 2121 filed by Iloilo’s Sen. Franklin Drilon penalizing state actors who practice red-tagging. Along with the recent statement...
Battling hunger
THE RATE of hunger in the country climbed when the coronavirus disease pandemic hit last year.
Some 30.7 percent of families suffered hunger and 8.7...
Rule of law
“TO threaten our judges and lawyers is no less than an assault to the judiciary. To assault the judiciary is to shake the very...
Search
HUMAN rights watchdog Karapatan urged the Supreme Court to heed the calls to review the rules on the issuance of search warrants amid what...
Why not peace?
ONE year under the COVID-19 pandemic leaves the Philippines with both a health and human rights crisis. In fact, pandemic quarantines and health protocols...
A year of misery
(We yield this space to the statement of the church-based group Promotion of Church People’s Response due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
FOR more than a...
Brave and selfless
SEVENTY-six years ago, on March 18, 1945 the Free Panay Guerilla Forces launched the final assault against Japanese occupation forces in Iloilo and elsewhere...
Dispose used facemasks properly
AS COVID-19 cases in the country continue to swell, a waste and pollution watchdog pressed the government to duly integrate the proper disposal of...
No place in a democracy
(We yield this space to this unity statement of academics against the recent attacks on and killings of activists. – Ed.)
WE STAND united against...